Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the Harvard team's lack of funds putsit at a disadvantage in comparison with other,more heavily funded university teams...
...clings on to third place in the league, although that depends on the outcomes this weekend. Luck does side with the Crimson tonight as it plays in Lavietes Pavilion, where it is 4-2 in its last six games against the Bulldogs, including wins the past two seasons. In comparison, the Crimson has a 2-7 record in its last nine at Yale's John J. Lee Amphitheater...
...Harvard," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message, "we try to create an environment where students can be as selfless as possible...[B]y comparison with the world outside and beyond Harvard, where people get on career tracks, want to do well in order to protect and provide for their loved ones, become geographically immobilized, etc., I think college--this one anyway--provides a rare moment, when most students are at a critical stage of their development, to open up rather than closing down and drawing in on themselves...
...Either way, a great deal of energy has been wasted and misdirected on this question. I don't mean to minimize the injury resulting from any part of this tragedy. But all the personal harm possible from character misrepresentation or even from defamation, whether valid or not, pales in comparison to the life-altering havoc wreaked on a victim of sexual assault, and that's what lies at the heart of this incident...
...male counterparts. The Bee's tradition of donating a book to the group's collection moves in the direction of an intellectualism eschewed by the final clubs. The effort (transparent as it may be) to encourage diversity betrays some vague awareness of reality that stands out in stark comparison to that held by Douglas Sears '69, president of the Interclub Council, who legitimizes the final clubs by maintaining, "Men have always wanted a place of their own where they wouldn't have to compete with women...